PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Malicious Destroyer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thierry Henry (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be fireworks!

Destroyer
vs
Henry

150 cm
20
300 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

199 cm
25
246 lbs
5 - 4 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Dangerous knees
Experienced

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Malicious Destroyer!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Thierry Henry!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Taro Takaoka and Shigeki Fujiwara.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Henry throws a shot from downtown. Destroyer moves away and avoids it.
Henry scores with a nice head shot.
Destroyer tries to clinch but Henry is having none of it.

Destroyer clinches.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but Henry blocks with his arms.
Destroyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Henry has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Henry on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Destroyer misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Henry.
Destroyer looking to throw knees to the head but Henry is blocking nicely.
Henry avoids the elbow strike from Destroyer, against the ropes.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Henry blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Destroyer trying to land knees to the body.
Henry is looking to break free of the clinch but Destroyer has double underhooks.
Henry looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.
Destroyer misses with an elbow over the top.
Destroyer really is a fat lump.
Destroyer prevents Henry from breaking the clinch.
Henry wants to break the clinch but can't.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.
Destroyer has Henry pressed against the ropes, preventing Henry from circling away and getting back to striking at range.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Destroyer misses with an elbow over the top.
Henry looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Destroyer throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Henry blocks it with crossed arms.
Destroyer creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Destroyer misses with a knee to the head.
Destroyer with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Destroyer creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Henry's defenses.
Destroyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Henry has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Henry blocks it with crossed arms.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.
Destroyer lands an elbow that stopped Henry in his tracks for a moment.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.
Henry managing to block the knees to the body from Destroyer.
Destroyer gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but Henry blocks with his arms.
Henry on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Destroyer landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Henry has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

Henry breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Destroyer tries to clinch up but Henry circles away and keeps his distance.
Destroyer wants to clinch up but Henry keeps it at a distance.
Thierry Henry seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Henry rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Destroyer moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Destroyer tries to clinch there but Henry circles away.

Henry lands a left and a right that send Destroyer crashing to the mat, dazed. Henry thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!

It looks like Malicious Destroyer has been cut.
Henry misses with a few strikes there.
Destroyer tries to clinch up but Henry circles away and keeps his distance.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Henry misses with a wild body shot.
Destroyer tries to clinch up but Henry circles away and keeps his distance.
Henry misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Destroyer tries to clinch up but Henry circles away and keeps his distance.
Destroyer fails in his attempt to clinch.

Destroyer darts in and clinches Henry up against the ropes.
Henry blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A frustrated look appears on Henry's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Destroyer throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Destroyer lands a knee to the body.
Destroyer misses with a knee to the head.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Henry avoiding damage as Destroyer throws knees to the body.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.
Destroyer lands a knee to the head.
Destroyer throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Henry blocks it with crossed arms.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Destroyer with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Henry blocks the elbow strike.
Destroyer throws an elbow that misses.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but Henry blocks with his arms.
Destroyer with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.

Henry escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Destroyer tries to close the distance and clinch up but Henry swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Destroyer tries to clinch up but Henry circles away and keeps his distance.
Destroyer tries to clinch there but Henry circles away.
Henry connects with a single shot there.
Henry misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Destroyer.
Henry misses with a two punch combination.
Henry throws out a powerful jab.
No joy there for Henry, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Henry thows a body shot but no joy.
Destroyer tries to clinch up but Henry circles away and keeps his distance.
Henry lands a glancing blow to the side of Destroyer's head.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
Henry lands a lovely overhand right.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Henry misses with a looping left.
Destroyer moves out of range as Henry strikes.

Destroyer gets in close and instigates a clinch.
With the two fighters working up against the ropes, Destroyer just misses with a elbow thrown towards Henry's brow.
Henry tries to break free but Destroyer pushes him back against the ropes.
Henry managing to block the knees to the body from Destroyer.
Destroyer looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Destroyer misses with a knee to the head.
Destroyer has Henry pressed against the ropes, preventing Henry from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
A frustrated look appears on Henry's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Henry is trying to break the clinch but Destroyer is controlling him.
Destroyer trying to land knees to the body.
Destroyer misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Henry.
Destroyer looking to throw knees to the head but Henry is blocking nicely.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.
Henry avoids the elbow strike from Destroyer, against the ropes.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Thierry Henry dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Malicious Destroyer's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Destroyer rushes Henry and presses him up against the ropes.
Destroyer misses with a knee to the head.
Destroyer misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Henry.
Destroyer throws a knee to the head but misses.
Destroyer throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Henry wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Knees in the clinch landing for Destroyer.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Destroyer misses with a knee to the head.
Destroyer lands a good knee to the midsection. Henry won't want to take too many of those.
Henry avoiding damage as Destroyer throws knees to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Destroyer misses with an elbow over the top.
Destroyer missing with knees to the body.
Destroyer is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Henry is defending well for now.
Destroyer throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Destroyer unloads a knee to the mid-section. Henry lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
With the fighters up against the ropes, Destroyer throws an elbow but misses.
Destroyer looking to throw knees to the head but Henry is blocking nicely.
Henry has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Knees to the body from Destroyer.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Henry avoids a wild elbow strike from Destroyer.
Destroyer missing with knees to the body.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Henry avoids it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Destroyer looking to throw knees to the head but Henry is blocking nicely.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Henry blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Henry is trying to break the clinch but Destroyer is controlling him.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Henry avoids it.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Destroyer creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Destroyer misses with an elbow over the top.
Destroyer creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Henry managing to block the knees to the body from Destroyer.
Destroyer has Henry pressed against the ropes, preventing Henry from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Henry is looking to break free of the clinch but Destroyer has double underhooks.
Destroyer misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Henry.
Henry blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Destroyer trying to land knees to the body.
Henry wants to break free but Destroyer has control.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer missing with knees to the body.
Destroyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Henry has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Henry wants to break the clinch but can't.
A frustrated look appears on Henry's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.
Destroyer keeps control of Henry as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Destroyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Henry has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Destroyer throws an elbow but it misses.
Destroyer throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Destroyer lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Destroyer lands a damaging elbow.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Henry avoids the elbow strike from Destroyer, against the ropes.
Destroyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Henry has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer looking to throw knees to the head but Henry is blocking nicely.
Destroyer missing with knees to the body.
Destroyer gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Henry has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Henry wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Henry wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Destroyer has him pressed against the ropes.
Henry takes a knee to the side of the body.
Destroyer creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Henry avoiding damage as Destroyer throws knees to the body.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
Destroyer throws a knee to the head but misses.
Henry takes an elbow to the forehead.
Henry on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Henry working hard to break the clinch.
Destroyer throws an elbow that misses.
Destroyer pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the ropes.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.
Henry is trying to break the clinch but Destroyer has him pressed against the ropes.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Henry is defending well for now.
Henry can't break the clinch.
Henry wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.

Henry escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Destroyer tries to close the distance and clinch but Henry swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Destroyer tries to clinch up.
Destroyer wants to clinch.
Henry circles away from the clinch attempt.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Henry keeps the fight on the outside.
Henry scores with a nice right hand.
Henry throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Thierry Henry showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Malicious Destroyer's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Destroyer tries to clinch up.
Destroyer tries to close the distance and clinch up but Henry swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Henry misses with a two punch combination.
Thierry Henry seems to be getting the better of the standup.

Destroyer gets a clinch.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.
Henry has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Destroyer prevents Henry from breaking the clinch.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Destroyer misses with a knee to the head.
Destroyer throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Henry blocks it with crossed arms.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Destroyer connects with a nasty looking knee right to Henry's face.
Henry is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the ropes.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Destroyer creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Destroyer trying to land knees to the body.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but Henry blocks with his arms.
Henry is trying to break free.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Henry working hard to break the clinch.
Henry can't break the clinch.
Henry is trying to break the clinch but Destroyer is controlling him.
Destroyer tries to land knees in the clinch but Henry avoids the damage to the body.
Destroyer lands an elbow that stopped Henry in his tracks for a moment.
Henry wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Destroyer has him pressed against the ropes.
Henry on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
A frustrated look appears on Henry's face as he tries to break the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Henry avoids a wild elbow strike from Destroyer.
Destroyer connects with a nasty looking knee right to Henry's face.
With the fighters up against the ropes, Destroyer throws an elbow but misses.
Henry tries to circle away but Destroyer has him pinned against the ropes.
Henry tries to break the clinch but Destroyer is controlling the position.
Destroyer with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Destroyer looking to throw knees to the head but Henry is blocking nicely.
Henry can't break the clinch.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Destroyer throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Henry blocks it with crossed arms.
Destroyer misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Henry.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but Henry blocks with his arms.
Destroyer throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Henry blocks it with crossed arms.
Henry tries to break free but Destroyer pushes him back against the ropes.
Destroyer lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Destroyer throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer misses with an elbow strike.
Destroyer looking to throw knees to the head but Henry is blocking nicely.
Destroyer scores with a knee to the head.
Destroyer creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Destroyer trying to land knees to the body.
Henry on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Destroyer looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Destroyer throws an elbow that misses.

That's six minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Henry avoids the elbow strike from Destroyer, against the ropes.
Henry has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Henry on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Henry tries to circle away but Destroyer has him pinned against the ropes.
Destroyer throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Henry blocks it with crossed arms.
Henry looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.

Henry manages to break the clinch.
Henry throws a series of punches but Destroyer moves out of range.
Destroyer tries to clinch there but Henry circles away.

That's seven minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

Henry tries to keep at a distance but Destroyer has taken the fight into the clinch.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but Henry blocks with his arms.
Henry dodges an elbow strike from Destroyer.
Destroyer misses with an elbow over the top.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.
Destroyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Henry has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Destroyer obliges.
Destroyer pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the ropes.

That's eight minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Destroyer using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Henry has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
With the fighters up against the ropes, Destroyer throws an elbow but misses.
Destroyer lands a knee to the body.
Destroyer with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Nice elbow from Destroyer.
Destroyer utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.

That's nine minutes gone in the round.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but Henry blocks with his arms.
Destroyer tries a knee to the head but Henry blocks it.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Destroyer tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Henry wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Destroyer pushes off an throws an elbow but Henry leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the ropes.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Destroyer scores a nice knee to the body.
Destroyer misses with a knee strike.
Destroyer scores a nice knee to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Malicious Destroyer clearly takes that round.
The cut man is working on Malicious Destroyer's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.

Destroyer tries to clinch up.
Destroyer wants to clinch up but Henry keeps it at a distance.
Destroyer fails with an attempt to clinch.
Henry lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Destroyer backs up against the ropes.
Henry throws a right and a left that both miss.
Destroyer tries to clinch up but Henry circles away and keeps his distance.
Destroyer tries to close the distance and clinch but Henry swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Destroyer bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Henry keeps the fight on the outside.
Henry moves into range and connects with a jab.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Some wild striking there from Henry.
Henry lands a big right hand and follows it up with an uppercut. Oh and another big punch and a knee - Destroyer can't take much more of this! Another big shot to the jaw from Henry and Destroyer drops to the floor. Beaten and bloodied - he had enough there. A vicious beatdown by Henry.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:39 of round 4, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Thierry Henry!